A tight cluster of states provides incentives and markets for storage.Energy storage is a small market undergoing fierce growth. The U.S. installed 61.9 megawatts of energy storage in 2014 and GTM Research is forecasting 220 megawatts to be...

NYC is driving toward a market-based model for its distribution system—with energy storage integrated at the grid edge.The executives at Demand Energy believe that New York might be the mother of all energy storage markets.In 2013, Demand Energy was...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made a proposed decision on Friday that denied approval of a new gas-fired power plant in the coastal Southern California city of Carlsbad.According to the PUC, approval for the plant was denied...

Conergy’s new CEO: “In this YieldCo-crazed environment, I have no problem selling projects.”Until a few years ago, Conergy was a healthy integrated German solar company building solar modules, racking and inverters, as well as developing PV projects...

How much solar can distribution feeders handle? That experiment plays out every day in the Hawaiian islands.The latest skirmish in the Hawaiian solar power struggle stems from a letter sent out last week by HECO to 50 Big Island residents that...

First Solar missed the low end of its sales guidance but posted net income of $397 million on 2014 sales of $3.4 billion. Production, capacity utilization, and conversion efficiency showed positive results.Q4 highlights and Q1 guidanceBook-to-bill...

Can the SolarCity leasing model light up Africa?The East African country of Tanzania, in an effort led by startup Off-Grid Electric, along with the support of the international development community, just set a goal of having “One Million Solar...

First Solar crushes the previous CdTe cell efficiency record.Last year at this time, First Solar crushed the conversion efficiency mark for cadmium telluride with a world record 20.4 percent.That figure has been easily eclipsed a year later with a...

The administration asks to maintain the ITC and PTC as part of $7.4 billion in renewable energy support.President Obama just unveiled a $3.99 trillion budget for 2016 that asks Congress for a permanent extension of tax credits for the solar and wind...

Hanergy chief exec: “No one else can do what we do with solar power embedded in glass windows.”Li Hejun, the rags-to-riches billionaire CEO of China's Hanergy, has suggested that his firm will be a global leader in solar technology. But reports on...

First Solar’s TetraSun silicon solar photovoltaic production line is officially in service. The line, located at First Solar’s Kulim, Malaysia manufacturing facility, has capacity for 100 megawatts of annual module production. This was initially...

The title of world’s largest solar farm is fleeting with California adding solar capacity in half-gigawatt chunks.Yet another half-gigawatt solar power project is coming on-line in California.Late last year, the 550-megawatt capacity Topaz Solar...